In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their … impacts. First, students in small classes are significantly more likely to attend college and exhibit improvements on other …, students who had a more experienced teacher in kindergarten have higher earnings. Third, an analysis of variance reveals …

This paper summarizes the main findings of a recent literature that has constructed top income shares time series over … the long-run for more than 20 countries using income tax statistics. Top incomes represent a small share of the population … but a very significant share of total income and total taxes paid. Hence, aggregate economic growth per capita and Gini …

This paper investigates whether taxpayers bunch at the kink points of the US income tax schedule (i.e. where marginal … compensated elasticity of income with respect to tax rates. These models are used to perform simulations of bunching and calibrate … the key parameters (the behavioral elasticity and the extent to which taxpayers control their income) to the empirical …

instrumental variables estimates of the sensitivity of income to changes in tax rates. From 1979 to 1981, the US income tax … changes in income between taxpayers close to the top-end of a tax bracket to the other taxpayers. These estimates, based on … comparisons between very similar groups, are robust to underlying changes in the income distribution, such as a rise in inequality …

We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their parents to describe three … income at the national level. The conditional expectation of child income given parent income is linear in percentile ranks …. On average, a 10 percentile increase in parent income is associated with a 3.4 percentile increase in a child's income …